Plutarch Quotes About Anger

Quotes about: Anger

• No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Savages

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.1137, Simon and Schuster

• Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Self

• For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Fire, Wrath

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2636, Delphi Classics

• When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Battle, Resistance

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.37

• Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Doors, Mind

• Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Angry Man

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.56

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